Edible Portion: Leaves, Fruit, Spice, Vegetable A spreading shrubby plant. It grows 3 m high and spreads 1.5-2 m wide. The leaves are sword shaped and 1.5-3 cm long by 2-2.5 cm wide. The flowers are white or yellow and 1 cm across and in the axils of leaves. The fruit are small. The fruit is 8-10...
Edible Poriton:Fruit, Leaves, Vegetable Often a Golden apple tree grows to a large tree which can be up to 30 m high but is more often 15 m high in cultivation. It has atrunk 60 cm across which can have buttresses. The bark on the trunk of the tree is fairly smooth. The twigs break off easily.The...
Edible Portion: Fruit, Flowers, Leaves An evergreen tree 5 to 25 m tall. It spreads out to 4 m across. Trees tend to branch near the base. Leaves are simple, thick andleathery and shiny on both surfaces. They are large and oval. Leaves can be up to 25-30 cm long and 12 cm wide. The leaveshave a...
Edible Portion:Fruit, Leaves A medium sized evergreen tree. It grows 10-30 m tall. The stem is erect and branching. The leaves are opposite and smooth.They are shiny, leathery and somewhat oval shaped. The leaves are 4.5-16.5 cm long by 2-8 cm wide. The flowers are pink ornearly white and occur...
Edible Portion: Leaves - Flavouring A bamboo. It grows 1-2 m tall. The stems are 4-7 mm across. The internodes are 25 cm long. It has the largest leaves of anybamboo. They can be 20-60 cm long and 10 cm wide.
Edible Portion: Leaves, Vegetable, Root An annual herb. It climbs or creeps along the ground. It has branches that divide in two. It often forms a dense ground cover.The stems form roots at the nodes. The leaves are small, opposite and heart shaped. The leaves are 0.8-2 cm long by 0.5-2 cmwide....
Edible Portion: Seeds, Leaves, Fruit, Vegetable, Flowers A pumpkin family plant. It is an annual vine with large leaves. It can grow 3-9 m long and spread 3-6 m wide. The thick stemshave furrows along them. It can climb over logs by attaching the tendrils which grow out of the stem near the leaf....
Edible Portion: Stalk, Leaves, Vegetable A lettuce plant with an edible stalk. It is an annual plant. It develops a stem 3-4 cm thick and 30 cm tall. The seed stalk is eatenlike celery or cooked. The leaves are curled. There are several cultivated varieties.
Edible Portion: Leaves, Vegetable, Fruit, Spice A pumpkin family plant. It is a coarse vine up to 15 m long. It keeps growing from year to year. It has tuberous roots. It climbs by means of tendrils. It is slightly hairy. The leaves are 8 to 18 cm long, and 8-20 cm across and deeply 3 lobed and...
Edible portion: Fruit, Leaves - Tea, Seeds A tree up to 12-40 m high with a low trunk and spreading branches. The tree has a rounded crown. It keeps its leaves throughout the year. The trunk can be 80 cm across. There can be buttresses 2 m tall. The bark is corky. The twigs have 5 faint grooves....